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Thursday, April 18, 2013

You Already Know What To Do

It's just a short 'hello' kind of thing. YT only
let you have a minute or less, so it's hard to
know what to say and what to leave out.

Anyway, I'd love to know what you think.

Keep
writing!THIS WEEK'S ARTICLE:

You Already Know What To Do

Rob Parnell

People are always asking
me if there's a surefire road to success.

And,
if one exists, can I please email it to them!

The
fact is there as many roads to success as there
are people.

Everyone
one of us is different. Therefore every path will
be different.

Plus,
we all have different definitions of success.

Whilst
having a blockbuster novel at the top of the NY
Times bestseller list may be a lot of authors
idea of success, this is often a nebulous,
unexamined goal with little chance of
actually happening.

It's
right and proper to have big dreams. They keep us
going.

But
when a dream becomes a specific goal, we need to
get real.

The
more you research your own potential success
path, the more important the smaller goals along
the way become - and the more in touch with
reality you are as a result.

But
no amount of research and advice can help you
when it comes to motivation.

You
either want to do something or you don't.

It's
pointless going after a long term goal if you
don't feel a daily compulsion to complete the
intermediary steps.

And
I would suggest that if you don't want to do the
little things that will take you towards your big
goal, then you should examine whether you really
want the big goal at all!

Jettisoning
big unwanted goals from your life can be
liberating.

It
can help you focus on what you really want.

And
it may prevent you from being depressed about not
having what you actually don't really need in
your life!

The
human mind is a marvelous thing.

We
have the ability to attach emotion to objects,
images and even words. We use these emotional
triggers to dictate our actions all the time -
because this is how we give meaning to our
decisions.

If
something feels right, that is, if a decision
creates a positive emotion in us, we tend to
follow through.

Conversely
when something feels wrong, we back away.

If
we didn't have these innate emotional responses,
we wouldn't know which paths to take.

The
intellect, like a machine, is a crap decision
maker.

Sometimes
our emotional response is so slight we
deliberately override it. Often this results from
the intellect overwhelming our intuition.

Intuition
is such a tiny voice in the mind sometimes that
it's easy to ignore.

But
we shouldn't.

Your
intuition is a very handy little tool. It's
basically the voice of the subconscious - which
has carefully weighed up all the pros and cons of
options from its vast reservoir of knowledge and
data - and handed you its verdict.

It's
up to you to listen to that verdict.

It's
more potent than an intellectual rationalization.

Intuition
is guidance from within.

And
when you're on the road to achieving whatever you
regard as success, you need all the right
guidance you can get.

Sometimes
you'll think you want something and you'll seek
out advice, from friends, family or from
information online or in a library.